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#1 2006-09-17 14:37:37

archuser
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From: Northamptonshire, UK
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dependancy hell? Try cursor hell.

I'm left handed. Ubuntu has a very nice set of left-handed cursors along with the right-handed cursors.

"I'll rename the whiteglass folder in /usr/share/icons and copy the one on my ubuntu partition over so that I can then use the left-handed cursors"

Oh, if only it was that simple. Gnome just doesn't want to see the left handed cursors. Why does it only see the right handed ones?

p.s I have the mouse on left-handed setting.

BTW I'm using Gnome.


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#2 2006-09-17 14:56:12

test1000
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Re: dependancy hell? Try cursor hell.

you could reverse the mouse icons with convert ? hackish but probably works..


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#3 2006-09-17 15:00:37

allucid
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Re: dependancy hell? Try cursor hell.

test1000 wrote:

you could reverse the mouse icons with convert ? hackish but probably works..

mouse icons aren't standard images.

I know you can set the cursor in ~/.Xdefaults with this line:

Xcursor.theme:          whiteglass

I do not know if Gnome honors this. The cursors have to be in the proper location, also (/usr/share/icons/<themename>/cursors/).

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#4 2006-09-17 15:09:24

archuser
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Re: dependancy hell? Try cursor hell.

The whiteglass/cursors and redglass/cursors are there copied over from my ubuntu partition. In /usr/share/ and ~<user>/.icons

It just won't see the left handed versions. Even if I leave the right handed ones out and just leave the left handed ones in, they're still right handed.


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#5 2006-09-17 15:32:30

test1000
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Re: dependancy hell? Try cursor hell.

allucid wrote:

mouse icons aren't standard images.

Arent they xpm's? would work then i think. Otherwise you could probably convert them anyway.

I would do a find for mousecursors if they still are there when you have deleted them..


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#6 2006-09-17 15:59:03

allucid
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Re: dependancy hell? Try cursor hell.

Does the orientation have to be set somewhere in the Gnome preferences?

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#7 2006-09-18 00:05:05

iphitus
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Re: dependancy hell? Try cursor hell.

rename the directory to 'default'

as for rotating mouse cursors, i know the set here has a PNG source which is converted to whatever X uses, so you could rotate these.

James

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